Garfinkel, Harold /

Harold Garfinkel (1917-2011) was one of the most creative and insightful social scientists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. While many of his "energetic and surprisingly vicious adversaries" (Garfinkel, 2002, p. 80) might take issue with his elevation to pioneer status, it is app...

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Main Authors: Mair, Michael, active 2020, Sharrock, W. W. (Wes W.) (Author)
Other Authors: Atkinson, Paul, 1947- (Editor), Delamont, Sara, 1947- (Editor), Cernat, Alexandru (Editor), Sakshaug, Joseph W. (Editor), Williams, Richard A., active 2020 (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : SAGE Publications Ltd., 2020.
Series:Ethnomethodology and ethnoscience.
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Summary:Harold Garfinkel (1917-2011) was one of the most creative and insightful social scientists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. While many of his "energetic and surprisingly vicious adversaries" (Garfinkel, 2002, p. 80) might take issue with his elevation to pioneer status, it is appropriate that he be included in this collection because of his impact on the social sciences. In keeping with what have come to be called his "breaching experiments," in which, among other things, he would task students with "making trouble" with simple games by querying, deliberately misunderstanding or unilaterally reformulating the rules while in the middle of playing them with others so they could examine how members of society went about making sense of the nonsensical (Garfinkel, 1967; Hill & ...
Physical Description:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781529745283
1529745284
9781526421036
1526421038